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##io ", slightly to the east ; the new camps were distributed across a far larger area than the originals. in a combined airborne @ - @ ground assault called operation snoopy, the rhodesian air force, rhodesian light infantry and special air service wiped out much of new chimoio on 20 september 1978. mozambique sent armour to zanla's aid in the form of nine soviet @ - @ made t @ - @ 54 tanks and four russian btr @ - @ 152 armoured personnel carriers, but the former were routed and one of the latter destroyed by the rhodesian security forces. according to rhodesian figures, there were